Would-be bee smoker burns down house

A Florida man caused a significant amount of damage to his home when he decided to smoke a colony of bees out of his house.

Mario Go of Lake Worth is said to have run into trouble when the support column, which housed the bees, caught fire. The column caught fire, the fire spread to the rest of the house and the rest, as they say, is history. Go’s amateur bee removal scheme caused about $50,000 worth of damage but nobody was injured, not even the bees – they are still there. [UPI]